Friday, March 13, 2026

Six stories about media manipulation









Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
(A look at the design process) (Of course, In Dec. 2025, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent nixxed some of the quarter designs that were approved by then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during the Biden Administration for focusing “on DEI and Critical Race Theory policies.” )



EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

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— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
("a secretive political organization called Democracy Unmuted...MS NOW found several recent creator videos that seemed to follow the Democracy Unmuted brief targeting Abughazaleh")



This is (a) wild (b) only scratching the surface, I suspect www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM